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Review Of Surveying The Canadian Pacific: Memoir Of A Railroad Pioneer And The Railway King Of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849,1923, Alec Paul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Both these books deal with themes related to railways and with events significant to the early economic development of western Can, ada. But there the similarity ends. Rylatt's memoir is a highly personal account of a stint with a survey crew in the Canadian cordillera a decade before the laying of the rails. Flem, ing, on the other hand, gives us a life of William Mackenzie, a railway builder who kept no diary and left very few personal papers to guide the biographer. Thus it is easier to contrast than compare the two volumes.

Review Of The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840, Brad A. Bays

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In her very readable and significant ethnohistorical work The Texas Cherokees, Dianna Everett resourcefully tells the story of this small and little-understood group during their twenty- year tenure in Texas. Everett argues that the Cherokees' migration to, problems in, and expulsion from Texas can best be understood via their traditional yet dichotomous political structure. That is, Cherokee ideals of group consensus and harmony among individuals conflicted with the realities of factionalism; and like most writers, Everett relates that this dichotomy became detrimental only after white contact.

Valuing The Student Voice: Student Observer/Consultant Programs, D. Lynn Sorenson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article discusses student observer/consultant programs which train impartial students who are invited to give feedback to faculty participants on their teaching. These programs are one way to value the student voice in faculty development. An overview and brief analysis of student observer/consultant programs and evaluations by participants are provided.

The Game Of Academic Ethics: The Partnering Of A Board Game, Stephen E. Sugar, Carol A. Willett

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A developer of classroom games agrees to a challenging assignment: to develop a classroom board game on the topic of academic ethics. This paper describes how, in partnership with a content expert, he successfully developed and piloted the game for adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland, University College. The two developers, cited as game writer and content expert, work through a variety of design, substance and logistical obstacles to ultimately pilot the game, A Question of Academic Ethics.

Ec94-448 Let's Preserve: Jams, Jellies & Preserves, Julie A. Albrecht

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Jams, jellies and preserves are foods with many textures, flavors, and colors. They all consist of fruits preserved mostly by means of sugar and they are thickened or jellied to some extent.

Fruit jelly is a semi-solid mixture of fruit juice and sugar that is clear and firm enough to hold its shape.

Jam also will hold its shape, but it is less firm than jelly. Jam is made from crushed or chopped fruits and sugar. Jams made from a mixture of fruits are usually called conserves, especially when they include citrus fruits, nuts, raisins, or coconut.

Preserves are made …

Major Pilgrimage Places Of The World, Robert Stoddard

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

In their quest to learn more details about pilgrimages, geographers have trudged along many sacred trails and have experienced the jostling of numerous religious crowds. Such experiential studies about particular pilgrimage events have contributed greatly to our accumulating knowledge of pilgrimages. Along with these detailed accounts of specific pilgrimages, however, we also need to examine this phenomenon from a global perspective. This is not to imply that a broad view of pilgrimages in a variety of settings is necessarily better or more enlightening than a detailed study of a particular pilgrimage event. Nevertheless, research on the general geographic characteristics of …

Impacts Of Biological Invasions On The Management And Recovery Of Rare Plants In Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, Lloyd Loope, Arthur Medeiros

United States National Park Service: Publications

Biological invasions assisted by humans are impoverishing biological diversity worldwide (MacDonald et al. 1989, Diamond 1989). Such invasions are particularly devestating to the biota of oceanic islands such as Hawaii (Williamson 1981, Brockie et al. 1988, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources et al. 1991). Ecosystems of the Hawaiian Islands are much more vulnerable to biological invasions than are continental ecosystems, because the organisms in them have evolved in isolation from many of the forces that have shaped continental organisms, including foraging and trampling by herbivorous mammals, predation by ants and mammals, virulent diseases, and fires (Loope & Mueller-Dombois …

The Role Of A Wildlife Reservoir In The Epidemiology Of Bovine Tuberculosis, D. U. Pfeiffer

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

The objective of this project was to study the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in the presence of a wildlife reservoir species. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of possum populations with endemic bovine tuberculosis infection were analyzed. The results were used to develop a computer simulation model of the dynamics of bovine tuberculosis infection in possum populations. A case-control study of breakdowns to tuberculosis infection in cattle herds in the Central North Island of New Zealand was conducted to identify risk factors other than exposure to tuberculosis in local possum populations.

Technology And Change: The Incorporation Of Synthetic Dye Techniques In Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria, Judith Byfield

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In the oriki (appellations) of an 18th-century oba (king) in Okuku, references to cloth and indigo were included in the verses that attested to the oba's wealth and greatness,

Abioye, my father, Olugbola, one who takes the image and all its children to dance

The beauty of cloth dyed in indigo does not fade

Adewale, the indigo is what gives the cloth its worth

The references suggestively point to the aesthetic as well as commercial value of indigo in Yoruba society. Scholars and travelers have long noted the importance of indigo dyed cloth in Yoruba society, and Yoruba women, the …

(Re-)Fashioning Identity: Late Twentieth-Century Transformations In Dress And Society In Boliva, Elayne Zorn

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The members of most of Bolivia's large indigenous ethnic groups, such as the nearly 22,000 people of ayllu Sakaka of northern Potosi, continue to wear a distinctive daily dress. Such dress nationally and internationally is emblematic of the Sakaka's separate, and to many inferior, identity as Indians. To the wearers also, or perhaps fundamentally, such dress marks a division between clothed indigenous humans (runa) and naked foreign outsiders (q'ara). This interpretation coincides with hegemonic non-Indian evaluations of Indian separateness, but reverses the hierarchy.

Yet most members of these large indigenous ethnic groups, whom I refer to …

Extension And Education Materials For Sustainable Agriculture, Volume 2, James W. King, Charles A. Francis

CARI Extension and Education Materials for Sustainable Agriculture

Extension and Education Materials for Sustainable Agriculture

Curricula in Sustainable Agriculture

Introduction to Curricula in Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomy 493/593 Course Outline

Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomy 493/AG*SAT

Principles and Practices of Sustainable Agriculture

Agricultural Ecosystems

Agricultural Ecology

Agroecology

Agricultural Ecology and Sustainability

Alternative Agriculture Curriculum

Sustainable Agriculture (B.S.)

Environment and World Food Production

Issues (Advanced) in Sustainable Agriculture

Crops, Soil, and Civilization, Agronomy 440

Master of Science in Sustainable Systems

Agricultural Ecology

National Curriculum for Sustainable Agriculture

Reshaping Undergraduate and Graduate Education to Include a Whole Systems Emphasis

Sustainable Agriculture Education: A Panel

Impact of Sustainable Agriculture Programs on United.States …

Recovery Plan For The Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus Albus), Mark Dryer, Alan Sandvol

Endangered Species Bulletin

The pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus Forbes and Richardson) was listed as an endangered species on September 6, 1990 (55 FR 36641) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (Act) of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) as amended. The range of the pallid sturgeon overlays three U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Regions: Region 3, Region 4, and Region 6, with Region 6 having been designated the lead Region for recovery (research functions are provided to all Service Regions by Region 8). Because of the wide range of the pallid sturgeon, its believed extreme rarity, numerous threats to species survival, …

A Review Of Baits And Bait Delivery Systems For Free-Ranging Carnivores And Ungulates, Samuel B. Linhart, Andreas Kappeler, Lamar A. Windberg

Contraception in Wildlife Management

Baits and bait delivery systems have been described for orally administering a variety of chemicals and biologicals to selected carnivores and ungulates. Development has varied from species for which bait preferences and means of distributing oral contraceptives have not yet been determined even on a limited scale (e.g., white-tailed deer) to cooperative, multicountry programs involving the annual distribution of millions of mass-produced oral rabies vaccine baits (e.g., red foxes in Europe). Much of the technical literature on the subject has appeared in sometimes obscure sources encompassing such fields as medical epidemiology, wildlife diseases, animal behavior, applied ecology, flavor chemistry, furbearer …

Acuta Enews October 1993, Vol. 22, No. 10

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

E-mail

President's message

Data Comm Project at Delaware Tech

User Groups Meet at Conference

21st Century Technology

Staff Report

Epa's Map Of Radon Zones, Nebraska, Sharon W. White, Lisa Ratcliff, Kirk Maconaughey, R. Thomas Peake, Dave Rowson, Steve Page, Linda C. S. Gundersen, R. Randall Schumann, James K. Otton, Doug Owen, Russell Dubiel, Kendell Dickinson, Sandra L. Szarzi

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

Sections 307 and 309 of the 1988 Indoor Radon Abatement Act (IRAA) direct EPA to identify areas of the United States that have the potential to produce elevated levels of radon. EPA, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Association of, American State Geologists (AASG) have worked closely over the past several years to produce a series of maps and documents which address these directives. The EPA Map of Radon Zones is a compilation of that work and fulfills the requirements of sections 307 and 309 of IRAA. The Map of Radon Zones identifies, on a county-by-county basis, areas of …

Allotment In Severalty On The Northern Ponca Reservation: The Geography Of Disposession, Oliver Raimund Froehling

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

In 1890 the Ponca Reservation in Knox and Boyd county was parcelled up and each individual Ponca received a plot of land as his or her own. The remaining 72,000 acres were opened for settlement under the Homestead Act. During the next few decades, most of the remaining Ponca lands held by individuals were sold to non-Indians. When the Ponca were allowed to acquire some tribal lands under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, the land base had already disintegrated. One effect of this disintegrating land base was the increased out-migration of tribal members which eventually led to termination of the …

Free Trade And The Environment: A Case Study Of The Texas Colonias, F. Andrew Schoolmaster

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Colonias are unincorporated subdivisions located in the rural, largely unregulated portion of counties where building codes and regulations are either nonexistent or unenforceable. Colonias are characterized by Third World living conditions where basic infrastructure services such as wastewater collection and treatment, drainage, paved streets, and, in some cases, electricity is lacking. Housing is substandard, with poor plumbing, heating and cooling systems. In Texas, there are approximately 1,193 colonias (home to an estimated 280,000 people, mostly Hispanic) concentrated outside of El Paso, and in counties comprising the lower Rio Grande Valley. In 1989 and 1991, voters approved constitutional amendments that authorized …

Annual Index

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Annual Index

Review Of Ecology And Human Organization On The Great Plains By Douglas B. Bamforth, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In this compact book, the outgrowth, or reprint, of his dissertation, Douglas Bamforth focuses his attention on cultural-ecological relationships between Native American hunters and the physical environments of the Great Plains. Specifically, Bamforth is concerned with forging a link between the social organization of historic and prehistoric hunters and their resource base, particularly the bison. It is a thoroughly professional study, drawing from a wide array of interdisciplinary evidence. The reader is systematically led from initial theoretical considerations, where a predictive theory is postulated, through an exegesis of grassland and ungulate ecology, to the application of the theory to regional …

Environmental Impact Assessment In Practice: Exploring The Contradictions, Joel Novek

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Since its introduction into Canada in 1973, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been controversial. Proponents argue that EIA is a practical means of achieving sustainable development because major projects are subject to an independent review before they are issued a license to proceed. However, the government's role in promoting resource-based development such as the ALPAC pulp mill (northern Alberta) and the Repap mills (northern Manitoba) has attracted considerable resistance. Public opposition to pulp and paper megaprojects in western Canada has reinforced the contradiction between the government's role as development promoter and as protector of northern resources and aboriginal populations.

Analysis …

Estimated Effect Of Alternative Production Practices On Profit And Ground Water Quality: Texas Seymour Aquifer, Ronald D. Lacewell, Manzoor E. Chowdhury, Kelly J. Bryant, Jimmy R. Williams, Verel W. Benson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Seymour aquifer of north-central Texas is identified as containing elevated levels of nitrate. The area has been designated as a Hydrologic Unit Area under the President's Water Quality Initiative. The effect of alternative production practices on the relative changes in nitrate leaching through the vadose zone was measured by adding an extended soil profile in the EPIC-WQ simulation model. Net returns from alternative production methods were estimated by using returns from associated yield and adjusting the cost of different levels of nitrogen, irrigation, and harvesting. Trade offs between nitrate percolation and net returns were explored by plotting the net …

Isolation And Characterization Of New Wild-Type Isolates Of Bovine Lentivirus, David Suarez, Martin Van Der Maaten, Charles Wood, Ceclia Whetstone

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Two new isolates of bovine lentivirus, also known as bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (BIV), were obtained from a seropositive cattle herd in Florida. This is the first report of new isolates of BIV since the original BIV strain, R29, was isolated in 1%9. The two new BIV isolates were derived from blood butFy coat cells cocultivated in vitro with fetal bovine lung cell cultures. The new isolates differed in vitro from the original R29 isolate in replication and syncytium formation in fetal bovine lung cells. Both new isolates were confirmed as BIV by immunofluorescence assay, Western blotting (immunoblotting), and polymerase chain …

Nebraska Bird Review (March 1993) 61(1), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1992 Treasurer’s Report……………..2

Samuel Aughey's List of Nebraska Birds (1878): A critical Evaluation by Roger S. Sharpe …………….. 3

Bird Count, NOU winter Meeting, Grand Island, NE, 1993 ……………..11

1992 Nebraska Christmas Bird Count …………….. 11

1993 Midwinter Survey of Bald and Golden Eagles in Nebraska ……………..22

Samuel Aughey’S List Of Nebraska Birds (1878): A Critical Evaluation, Roger S. Sharpe

Nebraska Bird Review

The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1869, but finances did not allow the addition of a scientist until 1875, when Samuel Aughey was added to the staff to fill the first chair of natural history (Pound and Clements 1900). Although a theologian by training, Aughey wrote prolifically on a number of natural history subjects pertaining to Nebraska, including its flora, fauna, and geology. A summary of his impressions of the natural history of the state, including its biota, was published in a book, "Sketches of the Physical Geography and Geology of Nebraska" (Aughey 1880), which was printed …

Great Plains Research Contents - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Table of Contents

Great Plains Research News And Notes - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society (NCTWS) held its 1992 Annual Meeting and Technical Sessions on September 30 - October 2, 1992 at the 4-H Camp near Halsey, Nebraska. The goal was to provide a forum for professionals involved with wildlife in Nebraska to discuss new advances and recent ideas in management programs, public education, research, and technology.

This year's introductory session focused on Conservation Biology. NCTWS President Jon D. Kauffeld introduced keynote speaker Richard L. Knight of Colorado State University, who delivered an address entitled "What's So New About Conservation Biology?" The threat of losing biological diversity …

Review Of Thomas Moran And The Surveying Of The American West By Joni Louise Kinsey, Martha Kennedy

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Along with Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and a few others, Thomas Moran (1837-1926) created some of the most memorable and influential paintings of the American West in the late nineteenth century. Joni Louise Kinsey presents the first thorough study of Moran's early pivotal paintings, the products of his experiences with the great survey expeditions of the 1870s into the west.

Review Of A Social Geography Of Canada: Essays In Honour Of J. Wreford Watson By Guy M. Robinson, Randy Widdis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

As a graduate student at McMaster and Queen's, I was made very aware of the contribution of J. Wreford Watson to Canadian geography. This is understandable since he was largely responsible for the establishment of geography departments at both these institutions as well as at Carleton. This collection of essays by former graduate students, friends, and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic cover many of the themes of inquiry that interested Watson. The contents focus upon the changing character of Canadian landscapes and society, including dimensions of its historical development, its present spatial forms and current social issues. The …

The Iconography Of Plants Collected On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Linda Rossi, Alfred E. Schuyler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

FrederickPursh 's Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814) is considered to be the standard flora of the nineteenth century. Additional floras of this period were developed by Nuttall, Elliott, and Torrey and Gray. We know that Meriwether Lewis collected some herbarium specimens that contributed to Pursh's Flora during the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Pursh's Flora was the first to include plants of the Pacific Northwest. A number of the specimens Lewis collected are in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Those who use the Herbarium know and appreciate the contribution of Lewis to botany. Twenty-four of the illustration …

Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Modestly touted as a preliminary exploration of leisure themes and topics in Alberta during the first half of the twentieth century, this book at first glance might be rejected as too esoteric by potential readers who are neither leisure specialists nor Albertans. This would be unfortunate, since the authors have produced a most informative and relevant work with implications reaching far beyond its intended geographical and topical scope. The first three chapters constituting Part One examine the institutional, social, and technological context within which leisure in early Alberta developed, while the last eight chapters (Part Two) focus upon a comprehensive …